Tuesday, December 18, 2012

To Sir Creek, With Hand-In-Glove

A few days back I wrote about the Roman Agent in Gujarat. Yes,
Gujarat is in the news and all over the place. Everyone’s talking about Gujarat
elections, predictions, forecasts, exit polls, how Narendra Modi lost badly, how ‘sickular’
forces defeated this monster and so on. Umm… everyone, but NDTV. After elections closed on December 17 all the news channels
were up with exit polls and endless discussions. For NDTV, who had campaigned
so heavily in Gujarat, the state ceased to exist at 5pm on December 17 when
voting closed. Someone was arguing with me about the elections and that the Gujjus
were nothing more than “communal traders”
and not a “secular” society etc. So, for this lady, I had to narrate to this
story about a Gujju in the army and his “secular” trading skills.

In the middle of the war our Gujju soldier got a telegram from his wife
that there was an emergency and he should return home. On telegramming her back
and forth he found she had broken her toe-nail and was in deep distress. Our
Gujju soldier could feel the pain right through his war-torn body. So he put up
an application with the General for leave. A furious General asked him to stop
being “effete” and “vamoose”. But the guy was a persistent
pest and kept pleading with the General. Frustrated and tired of the constant “trolling”, the General finally told
him: “Okay, you
can have your leave if you capture a Pakistani tank in 24 hours and bring it in”.
The General knew well this was well beyond any soldier at that time let alone a
Gujju. The Gujju soldier says “Alright, but stick to your promise and don’t cheat”.
The General relaxed having gotten rid of the pest and not having to deal with him
and his leave application again. But in less than 8 hours the man was riding to
the General’s office in a Pakistani tank to the utter disbelief of all the other
soldiers. The shock-and-awe-struck General couldn’t believe his eyes.

The thrilled and gleeful Gujju then put up his application for leave
again and asked the General to sign. The stunned General responded: “Oh… your leave is
fine but how did you do it? How did you capture a Paki tank in such a short
time, what’s the secret?” The Gujju waved his hand and responded: “Oh that’s nothing, you
see I have this arrangement, when those Paki soldiers want leave they borrow my
tank”. But the war is long over and Pakistan wages war a lot more differently
now. We also have our Track-2 diplomats who trade differently from the patriotic
Gujju who at least fought in a war and risked his life. So when the GOI invited
Pak Minister Rehman Malik around the
Gujarat elections Narendra Modi raised this issue about ‘Sir Creek’. No, this Sir isn’t a knight of the little kingdom of
the Queen but a small creek bordering Kutch
in Gujarat and Pakistan. Modi created a
storm by claiming the GOI was about to hand over Sir Creek to Pakistan.
Such an issue rattled the Congress which was battling elections and was faced
with what could snowball into a national scam. Giving off land has been a
ritual with some of our politicians. Long back Aksai Chin was given off to China because “not a blade of grass
grew there”. Recently some land was given off to Bangladesh or is about to be
given off. Sir Creek was the last straw. PM Manmohan Singh strongly denied
there was any such plan and the country was being misled and this was cheap
politics by Modi. Yep, even news editors in print and on TV screamed murder by
Modi. But trust people in the Social Media to be watchful as ever and bring out
the truth. It seems the GOI did have a plan to hand over Sir Creek as avideo would show. The video (at 18.20) has Barkha and other panellists discussing peaceon a
Pakistani channel and can be seen on Youtube. A short clip of the specific portion of the video is appended at the end of this post.

In the video Barkha Dutt, who knows quite a lot about Pakistan, clearly
states that former Pakistan PM Yusuf
Gilani indicated to her that the agreement on Sir Creek was ready and it
could be signed during a visit of Manmohan Singh to Pakistan. One can be
certain that the deal claimed by Barkha is not about Pakistan foregoing its
claim on Sir Creek forever. So what
Narendra Modi claimed wasn’t a lie and wasn’t fear mongering. Barkha, who
was in knowledge of such a deal over Sir Creek and had inside information didn’t
utter one word during all the noise over the issue in the last ten days. Manish Tiwari the I&B Minister and
frequent spokesman for everything for the Congress daringly claimed “December 15 is here
and Sir Creek is still with India”. One has enough evidence from
what Barkha stated that it was still with India because Modi made all the
noises. He probably ambushed the hand-over of Sir Creek to Pakistan.

It is increasingly
alarming what our supposed news media celebs are dealing in. They are certainly
not trading tanks for leave applications. Read more here at BarbarIndian’s post on the media
spins.It is not just Manish Tiwari, even our media’s bimbo editors went to
town rubbishing Modi’s claims on Sir Creek without any serious investigation or
fact-check. The denial by the Congress and the GOI doesn’t seem to be credible.
They must come out with facts. Either that or Barkha has been lying on
Pakistani TV and claiming balderdash that doesn’t exist. Sometime back a whole
truck load of media celebs were listed as being on the menu-card of Ghulam Nabi Fai, the American-Kashmiri,
who is lobbying for Azad Kashmir.
Fai was being funded by the Pakistani ISI and was hosting many of our news
traders and media scumbags to luxury trips and conventions on Kashmir. Fai is
now in prison and we have to be surprised that none of the journos or social
scientologists who were involved in his campaign are being investigated by the
govt.

Crooks in our media are the greatest danger to our democracy. We keep
getting more and more evidence of it all too frequently. There is something
truly sinister about this Sir Creek episode. I’ve heard of ‘To Sir, With Love’ but this sounds like
‘To Sir with Hand-in-Glove’. The Sir
Creek episode does need more investigation and the title of this post would not
make for a great movie.

Excellent, Ravi. You nailed the ever denial sickular media ConGreese goons with the facts. It's shame on us that Rehman Malik comes and spit on all our faces by not just denying Captain Saurabh Kalia's murder and also equating Babri Masjid with 26/11.

After watching the video at 18:30, I couldn't believe myself that B.D can stooge to such level by mediating a deal on giving sir creek to Pak in order to enhance mutual trust between India and Pakistan. Trust with Pakistan!! This is the joke if millennium.

Thanks...posted it in my FB so it reaches more people I know.What do we call these people who care a damn for those shaheeds who were tortured, humiliated and made to suffer in the hands of colonialists to get back every inch of bharth varsh.

This Burqa woman is such a thick-skinned b**ch...She got caught red-handed in teh Radia gate episode and she still continues brokering for Cong , now with pakistan???? Disgusting woman...The images from the video should be published in all newspapers , that too on the front page....

There was also a good article on FP by Jaggi on Sir Creek issue...Had Modi not raised teh issue , Sir Creek would be with Pak now......

Many years ago, PAF transport planes flying over Sir Creek were gunned down by IAF fighters stationed in Bhuj, one plane crashed killing PAF personnel on board. I am sure Khangies will be receiving some under-the-table cash (to stash in their swiss tijori in the Gandhi's account) for Sir Creek, especially as there is supposed to be shale gas underneath. Recently, it appears to me that media is projecting Modi as an evil giant-sized ogre, as a juggernaut whose momentum can't be checked.

Ravinar another great article, thums up for you!btw what you think Read here Why Did India/Congress Invite Rehman MalikThose in this country that speak of peace with Pakistan (the flag-bearers of Aman ki Asha) have not the faintest notion of Pakistan’s founding ideology, the Two-Nation Theory of Hindus and Muslims being never able to co-exist, which has put Pakistan forever in violent competition and confrontation mode with India, whose by-products are terrorist leaders such as Hafiz Mohammed Sayeed. Rehman Malik, who controversially visited India last week, is merely a buffoonish sample of Establishment Pakistan’s dyed-in-the-wool India baiters.Pakistan is not ready for peace with India. It does not want peace. Peace with India militates against its founding ideology. if you don't mind then h've a look on it too or share your viewsWhy Did India Invite Rehman Malik

In Times of India article today, Radha Kumar plays down Modi thus:"The Track II Aman Ki Asha proposal on Sir Creek offered another such possibility. Unfortunately, Narendra Modi dragged it into the Gujarat election campaign, and in the process, mutilated it. It was suggested that the two countries disaggregate the dispute by working on its doable aspects and setting the rest aside for further negotiation...."

Narendra Modi has emphatically stated that as a concerned State, Gujarat must be consulted in all the negotiations concerning Sir Creek. What is wrong about it?

I did notice this too (of NDTV not paying attention). They just want to down play it probably.

But should Modi loose, NDTV will be totally active.

I still remember the interview Roy did with Nitish Kumar (after Nitish won the election in Bihar, last year or the year before). He repeatedly kept asking Nitish if he will accept Modi as a PM etc. The second and third time this question was asked, Nitish got restless and said some thing to the extent that he doesn't like that idea (of Modi being projected as PM candidate), much to the happiness of Roy.

I liked your statement in some other article (that these days elections don't arouse him too and that he is happy eating kababs some where :-))

What a Bitch, shoot her point blank, there is no place for traitors in this country....Shit shit what these bastards are doing to my country India!! This congress and Manmohan will gift India for peanuts to Pakistan or china.

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